Critical Timescales for Burrowing in Undersea Substrates via Localized Fluidization, Demonstrated by RoboClam: A Robot Inspired by Atlantic Razor Clams
The Atlantic razor clam (Ensis directus) burrows into underwater soil by using motions of its shell to locally fluidize the surrounding substrate. The energy associated with movement through fluidized soil — characterized by a depth-independent density and viscosity — scales linearly with depth. In...
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109256 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4151-0889 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9755-3856 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9233-2245 |